postmodernism: globalisation Flashcards
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What is globalisation
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- the world is smaller and more accessible than it was in 1990s due to societies spending on each other
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Postmodernists: transformed modern societies
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- ALBROW: globalisation is a process by which people have incorporated into a single society
- WATERS: it’s a social process due to the constraints of geography on economic/political etc arrangements reduced
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MARTELL: micro level
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- geographical distance and time zones are no longer important
- digital technology erased distance and substituted virtual space for physical space
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Micro level: global digital interconnectedness
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- this means that people can occupy the same online space at the same time
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Macro level/ societal level
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- this means that goods, money, people, services etc are crossing national boarders
- societies were once distant but now they’re increasingly intertwined and inter independent
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macro and micro are ingerowmven
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- local lives of people are increasingly shaped by events, decisions and actions that take place at a distance
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BAUDRILLARD: postmodern societies are hyper real societies
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- since they have been dominated by simulacra (signs of reality) in films, TV etc
- simulacra have became more real than reality itself
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BAUDRILLARD: media
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- media is responsible for the inability of people in the postmodern world to distinguish image and reality
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causes or globalisation: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
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- advances in digital technology
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causes or globalisation: economic change
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- control of worlds digital communications is concentrated with transnational corporations (TNCs)
- 24hr financial markets
- intentional division of labour emerged in production of fashion, music, films etc
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causes or globalisation: political change
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- many TNCs have greater economic power than governments and can impose their plans on states and politics
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causes or globalisation: global movement of people
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- people brought by cheap air travel and mass tourism and migration increased diversity
- globalisations created new global hybrid styles e.g. fashion, food
- increased choices in availability of media, religions, politics etc
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Postmodernists see globalisation as a positive phenomenon
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- since it created a new class of global consumers with a greater range of choices they can contradict a hybridised global identity
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Marxism and postmodernist: Marxists argue that capitalism engaged in global practices e.g. colonialism
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- so Marxists say globalisation is not a new phenomenon
- we’re just merely experience a further stage in evolution of capitalism
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HARVEY: flexible accumulation
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- this is when capitalists sought new sources of profit through creation of new areas of commerce
